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Posted on 10/25/14 at 10:05 pm to BadLeroyDawg
Posted on 10/25/14 at 10:05 pm to BadLeroyDawg
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Posted on 10/25/14 at 10:14 pm to BadLeroyDawg
Wednesday, 26 October 1864
The Army of Tennessee was one of the Confederacy’s finest fighting forces, but it was cursed for most of its existence by leaders whose qualities did not compare to those of the men in the trenches. This morning and afternoon, one of those leaders required the army to “demonstrate” on one bank of the Tennessee River, across from which was the Union-occupied city of Decatur, Alabama. This demonstration consisted primarily of marching around and occasionally firing off a volley of gunshots, to give the impression of a larger force and possibly alarm the Union commander into falling back from the position. The Union commander did not do anything of the sort, so the Confederates abandoned hopes of crossing there and proceeded westward to another ford.
The USS Adolph Hugel, under Acting Master Sylvanus Nickerson, captured the schooner Coquette with a cargo including tobacco and wheat at Wades Bay on the Eastern shore of the Potomac River. Two days later, the sloop James Landry was also seized by Nickerson for violation of the blockade regulations. Nickerson took the sloop Zion as a prize on 2 November, as the Potomac Flotilla alertly continued its ceaseless efforts to stifle even the smallest trickle of goods flowing from Southern sympathizers in Union dominated areas to the beleaguered Confederate forces in Virginia.
Sterling Price’s Confederates continued withdrawing from Missouri, fighting at Glasgow and Albany along the way. Alfred Pleasonton’s Federal cavalry stopped pursuing and returned to Fort Scott, Kansas. Samuel Curtis’s Federals continued pursuing, but there were discrepancies over command.
Captain Samuel P. Cox’s Missouri militia ambushed William “Bloody Bill” Anderson and his partisan guerrillas near Richmond, Missouri. The militia killed Anderson, beheaded him, then placed his head on a telephone pole, and dragged his headless body through town before burying it in an unmarked grave. Anderson had been one of the most notorious “Border Ruffians” who burned homes, looted towns, and murdered soldiers and civilians, often torturing and scalping his victims.
A Federal expedition began from Brownsville to Cotton Plant, Arkansas.
A Union scouting party travelled from Little Rock to Irving's Plantation, Arkansas.
A Federal expedition travels from Atlanta to Trickum's Crossroads, Georgia, and during the next two days skirmishes occur near Trickum's Crossroads, the Yellow River, Lawrenceville, Rosebud and Jug Tavern.
Federals scout from Vidalia to the York Plantation, Louisiana.
A brief battle occurs in Scott County, Virginia, as the Federals ambush and kill the partisan guerrilla leader, Captain Burleson.
Another skirmish breaks out at Winfield, West Virginia, with Confederate and Union Cavalry.
The Army of Tennessee was one of the Confederacy’s finest fighting forces, but it was cursed for most of its existence by leaders whose qualities did not compare to those of the men in the trenches. This morning and afternoon, one of those leaders required the army to “demonstrate” on one bank of the Tennessee River, across from which was the Union-occupied city of Decatur, Alabama. This demonstration consisted primarily of marching around and occasionally firing off a volley of gunshots, to give the impression of a larger force and possibly alarm the Union commander into falling back from the position. The Union commander did not do anything of the sort, so the Confederates abandoned hopes of crossing there and proceeded westward to another ford.
The USS Adolph Hugel, under Acting Master Sylvanus Nickerson, captured the schooner Coquette with a cargo including tobacco and wheat at Wades Bay on the Eastern shore of the Potomac River. Two days later, the sloop James Landry was also seized by Nickerson for violation of the blockade regulations. Nickerson took the sloop Zion as a prize on 2 November, as the Potomac Flotilla alertly continued its ceaseless efforts to stifle even the smallest trickle of goods flowing from Southern sympathizers in Union dominated areas to the beleaguered Confederate forces in Virginia.
Sterling Price’s Confederates continued withdrawing from Missouri, fighting at Glasgow and Albany along the way. Alfred Pleasonton’s Federal cavalry stopped pursuing and returned to Fort Scott, Kansas. Samuel Curtis’s Federals continued pursuing, but there were discrepancies over command.
Captain Samuel P. Cox’s Missouri militia ambushed William “Bloody Bill” Anderson and his partisan guerrillas near Richmond, Missouri. The militia killed Anderson, beheaded him, then placed his head on a telephone pole, and dragged his headless body through town before burying it in an unmarked grave. Anderson had been one of the most notorious “Border Ruffians” who burned homes, looted towns, and murdered soldiers and civilians, often torturing and scalping his victims.
A Federal expedition began from Brownsville to Cotton Plant, Arkansas.
A Union scouting party travelled from Little Rock to Irving's Plantation, Arkansas.
A Federal expedition travels from Atlanta to Trickum's Crossroads, Georgia, and during the next two days skirmishes occur near Trickum's Crossroads, the Yellow River, Lawrenceville, Rosebud and Jug Tavern.
Federals scout from Vidalia to the York Plantation, Louisiana.
A brief battle occurs in Scott County, Virginia, as the Federals ambush and kill the partisan guerrilla leader, Captain Burleson.
Another skirmish breaks out at Winfield, West Virginia, with Confederate and Union Cavalry.
Posted on 10/30/14 at 9:07 pm to BadLeroyDawg
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As always, appreciate the feedback. Good luck in your strategy of winning friends and influencing people.
Being born just a few miles from Chickamauga Battlefield, I appreciate your work. Keep it up
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